"Dedication" and "Dedication 2," a couple of mixtapes he made with DJ Drama, kick-started his recent run.
"Dedication 3" might be even kinda stinky — I do not enjoy hearing any of Wayne's close personal friends rap.
He followed it with a mixtape, "Dedication 2" (gangstagrillz.com), which ranks among the year's best hip-hop CDs.
"Dedication 3" finds Wayne continuing to follow T-Pain and Kanye West down the Auto-Tune rabbit hole.
You can stream "Dedication 3" now through an imeem player embedded at Nah Right, or jump right in and download the tape.
The song came out on "Dedication 2 — Gangsta Grillz," one of the many albums in Lil Wayne's shadow career as one of the most prolific and widely bootlegged rappers ever.
Dubstep's fertile undergrowth bore more fruit, ranging from the comparatively poppy wonders of SBTRKT by SBTRKT to Pinch & Shackleton's contemplative self-titled album, and Zomby's Dedication (4AD).
Especially with so many mouths to feed: more than a half-dozen Wayne prot?s appear here (as do two of DJ Drama's), with standout verses from Nicki Minaj ("Still I Rise"), Gudda Gudda ("Dedication 3") and Jae Millz ("Whoever You Like").
He'd mentioned it in interviews through the years and even sampled Elena Dementieva's grunt on 2006's Da Dedication 2. With the US Open looming on the calendar, I thought it would be fascinating to get his musings on the tournament and the sport in general.
In a guest appearance on the track "Mercy," from the Lil Wayne mixtape "Dedication 4," Ms. Minaj, an artist known for her garishly imaginative outfits and a range of cartoonish voices to rival Mel Blanc's, rapped, "I'm a Republican, voting for Mitt Romney".
Consequence: dedication (17 %), safeness (14 %), humanization (14 %), communication (105).
